[The Harlem Quartet]
The
Herald News
By Annie Alleman For
Sun-Times Media June 7, 2012
Special guest star
The Harlem Quartet joins the Chicago Sinfonietta for its final
performance of the season at North Central College.
The orchestra will
do a world premier of a new arrangement of...Bernstein’s “West
Side Story,” sponsored by the Bernstein estate, at the 8 p.m. June
16 performance in North Central College’s Wentz Concert Hall in
Naperville.
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This will be her
first time working with The Harlem Quartet, who are Ilmar Gavilan and
Melissa White, violin; Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola; and Paul
Wiancko, cello. The quartet returns to the Sinfonietta for Michael
Abels’ “Delights and Dances.”
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Also on the docket
is Benjamin Lees’ “Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra.”
The quartet is the heart beat of the piece, she said. While the Abels
piece might be a crowd-pleaser, Chen called this the “ultimate
musical test.”
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After the concert
series, the Chicago Sinfonietta and Harlem Quartet will continue
their partnership and record a new album for Cedille Records, to
be released in spring 2013. It is the first commercial album by the
orchestra in 10 years and is also Chen’s first recording.
The album will
include Lees’ Concerto, Abels’ “Delights and Dances” and
Fleischer’s arrangement of “West Side Story.”
[The
Harlem Quartet is an ensemble of the Sphinx Organization, which was
founded in 1996 by violinist Aaron P. Dworkin,
http://www.AaronDworkin.com,
who is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
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